Example sentences of "[verb] [modal v] have been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , Mr Justice Johnson asked for permission to relist the case because he ‘ became concerned that the length of sentence imposed may have been excessive ’ . |
| 2 | Mr Justice Johnson said he was ‘ concerned that the length of the sentence imposed may have been excessive ’ . |
| 3 | Therefore , total transactions cost would have been 43.50 and the net profit after costs would have been 366.50 . |
| 4 | For instance , under a market valuation of exchange rates Tanzania 's coffee producers would have received a significantly higher farmgate price when expressed in local currency , and their capacity to save and invest would have been higher . |
| 5 | Some of the things that happened may have been misguided , that 's all . ’ |
| 6 | If , however , Shakespeare did actually exist , then he must have possessed certain attributes that made him the kind of existent he was , even though no attributes that he may have had would have been sufficient to individuate him in a metaphysical sense . |
| 7 | Anyway hurrying would have been unproductive . |
| 8 | The questions raised may have been interesting , but the answers given were tritely familiar ; the authorial tone was relentlessly baleful . |
| 9 | For a man with many God-fearing years with the Wee Wee Frees , the decision to leave must have been difficult . |
| 10 | And therefore y er in a sense he was , he was acting on the basis of a false premise and therefore the wh sort of the whole set of conclusions he draws could 've been wrong . |
| 11 | But after what I understand would have been several years of compulsory Russian , he could barely manage da and nyet . |
| 12 | Asking the way down with the glory of sight restored would have been stupid in the extreme , and I gave secret thanks for my ego salvation . |
| 13 | Secondly , any training he had received would have been conventional or vapid , as a result of German supervision of art education . |
| 14 | In ( 135 ) , although make would have been possible , the writer has chosen cause , and has thus felt it to be more appropriate to represent the subject of the verb ( " raising the temperature of a compound " ) as an external condition which sets off a reaction of decomposition in compounds rather than as an agent which exerts its causative action at the same time as the reaction occurs . |
| 15 | Especially from the Seven Years War in 1757 , the wars in which Britain was involved may have been European and dynastic in origin , but so far as her struggle with France was concerned , they were global in breadth . |
| 16 | Getting into a state as a result of which someone died may have been reckless in ordinary language but there was a gap in time , a lack of contemporaneity , between the getting into the state and the victim 's death . |
| 17 | The established course of dealing must have been consistent . |
| 18 | So I 'm zooming down , which I thought must have been fifty mile an hour , but it was probably only about five really , or ten , but er put the brake on for the platform to stop , no chance , it just kept going . |
| 19 | With some notable exceptions such as the use of terracing in the Ulugurus , most of the measures involved could have been successful in physically preventing soil erosion . |
| 20 | For me to explode would have been absurd . ’ |
| 21 | To have asked would have been indiscreet . |
| 22 | The persuasion to marriage , then , is a criticism of the Friend ( whose reasons for not marrying may have been honourable or dishonourable ) , but it tells us something about the Poet . |
| 23 | The buyer 's refusal or failure to pay must have been wrongful . |
| 24 | The figure I think might have been higher if we had n't had some hot weather which er meant the fish were keeping rather low in the lochs , and it was difficult for the ospreys to find sufficient food . |
| 25 | Gazza said : ‘ Some of what he did might have been wrong but I respect the fact that Maradona made himself the player Napoli could n't do without when he was in Italy . |
| 26 | In all these cases , however , the initial trigger to change might have been physical rather than biotic . |
| 27 | As far as the company was concerned , as one drifted nearer to insolvency , any rescuer who appeared would have been welcome provided we 'd been absolutely assured at the critical time when the loss of £92m was announced that a rescue was legally binding , underwritten and in place . |
| 28 | ‘ That would have meant , ’ said the inspector alertly , ‘ that anyone who knew where you were all sitting would have been able work out who would get which plate in the pile . ’ |
| 29 | Are there any particular topics that you think would have been useful to have seen in the course that were n't ? |
| 30 | Part of what the Minister said may have been correct . |